Where have they gone?
I keep buying pairs in a variety of patterns and colours, so that I can have a left-handed glove. I have been conscientious about storing them in partnerships, or so I thought, but now I have about ten right-handed gloves and none for my neglected left hand. I have even tried wearing a right-handed glove on my left hand, but it’s quite constricting and not at all comfortable.
I’m right-handed and my husband is left-handed, but we both have the same frustration with gloves. If there were any logic to it, I would expect my husband to have problems with right-handed gloves, but he doesn’t. It’s always the left-handed gloves that vanish.
I researched the possibility of buying only left-hand gloves, but that idea didn’t fly. One day I shall find the missing gloves, along with all the pencils and other things that mysteriously go astray. Meanwhile, I await the delivery of a few more pairs of gloves.
This phenomenon doesn’t occur with winter gloves, just the ones I need for gardening, although I do find that a similar thing happens with rubber gloves, the ones everyone calls ‘Marigolds’ even if they’re not that brand.
It’s always the left-hand gloves that develop a split that isn’t apparent until the glove is full of water or the hand is covered in whatever the glove was meant to thwart. It’s quite sinister. Is it the work of the Devil, perhaps, or mischievous spirits, like boggarts?
If different patterned gloves don't worry you, there needs to be a swap site where people with missing right gloves swap their excess of left gloves for right hand gloves.
ReplyDeleteThat would be a good idea. I frequently wear odd gloves.
DeleteI've never had that problem, I rarely wear gloves anyway as I can't properly "feel" what I am doing. I do wear elbow length thick suede gloves for trimming roses. Andrew has a good idea. Maybe you could put a notice up at a community room or in a shop window.
ReplyDeleteElbow-length suede gloves - like waders for arms. Very good idea - rose thorns can be vicious.
DeleteBetween the wars, school children naturally using their left hand were often punished by their teachers . My dad was too scared to argue and wrote for the rest of his life with his right hand. But for every other activity, he used his natural (left) hand.Perhaps that influenced left hand products.
ReplyDeleteTeachers and other adults tried that with my husband - well after the war - but it didn't work. He's always been able to plough his own furrow.
DeleteYou need to join up with Graham at Eagleton Notes - he has lost all the right handed ones. He only mentioned it yesterday so there is a well provisioned glove fairy out there somewhere with some of your and some of his.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned it to Graham on his blog. Coincidence - chimes with your post, too.
DeleteNow! Look! It's as easy as A,B,C...
ReplyDeleteIf you turn a right handed glove in~side~out..
You will finish up with a left handed glove....
And vice versa..! :). See...! :).
Goes without saying....l'm amphidextrous...!
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Now, why didn't I think of that?
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is left handed. When she started kindergarten in 1971
ReplyDeleteshe was the only lefty in her class. Her teacher said she would need to learn to cut lefthanded. How rude. I bought her lefty safety scissors for children. Hugs cecilia
Teachers, huh, what do they know? (I'm allowed to say that - I was a teacher!) I'm not sure they're much more enlightened now, to be honest. When I told my daughter's DT teacher she was left-handed he seemed surprised . . .
DeleteHi Janice - I turn my rubber gloves inside out to make up into a pair ... not sure if you could do this for the gardening sort ... but love the patterns - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteI have turned rubber gloves inside out on occasion. Not sure about the gardening sort . . .
ReplyDeleteHave you been mistreating them in any way perhaps, so that they've started a left-handed gardening glove union and are currently on strike? I have been very strict with my gardening gloves - both left and right-handed - ever since one of them was squatted by a wasp overwinter which resulted in an ouch moment on my side. Don't remember if it was a left or right-handed one, but I've suspicious of gardening gloves ever since! xxx
ReplyDeleteOoh, that sounds nasty! x x x
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